Power and Greed: A Short History of the World

by PhilippeGigantes (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $15.42

  This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just society, men such as Moses, Solon, Jesus and Muhammad, and on the other, the rule-breakers, termed 'Grand Acquisitors'. The latter, motivated by greed, use every means fair and foul to acquire more than their share - from the warring chieftains of early societies to the so-called robber barons of the nineteenth century and in our own times, the emergence of the superpower states.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.36

  This text deals with the nature of human greed and the eternal quest for power that, in every era and every culture, has determined why world events happened as they did. The author takes the reader on a journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for a just society, such as Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, and on the other, the rule-breakers, or the Grand Acquisitors .